Giving what their visibly excited fans came there for, Phoenix tore through their 90-minute-plus set playing their high-energy brand of electro-disco-rock. Leaning heavily on material from their latest album, songs like the percussively jumpy Lasso, slow hypnotic funk of Fences and blissed-out, synth-rocker Girlfriend received some of the biggest reactions of the night.
After a smattering of older tunes that most in the crowd – including myself – were unfamiliar with, the band brought the energy back big time with a pulsing Rome. Phoenix upped the ante when lead singer Thomas Mars climbed the speaker stacks during the band’s extended encore, as they closed the night out with the infectious 1901 that had the entire crowd singing along long after they exited the park.
HT’s resident photog Jeremy Gordon took this fantastic shots of Phoenix and their opening act Passion Pit…
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